Florida 7th District
Currently held by a Republican · open seat · district redrawn for 2026
Democrat
Bale Dalton
37%
Republican
Ryan Elijah
63%
ForecastTilt R
- Projected margin
- R+3.6
- 80% range
- R+18.8 to D+11.5
- Partisan lean
- R+10.5
- Tipping-point chance
- 0.85%
- Uncertainty multiplier
- 2.01×
The 80% range comes from 200,000 simulations in which this race’s error is correlated with every other race through the national, state and demographic layers.
How the estimate is built
100.0%
Fundamentals 100.0%
- Polling average
- no polls
- Fundamentals
- R+3.1
- Blended
- R+3.1
- Similar-race shift
- −0.3
Polling
No public polling of this matchup. The forecast rests on fundamentals plus the polling residuals of demographically and politically similar races — which is the normal case: most of the 435 House seats are never polled.
Fundamentals
- Partisan lean
- R+10.5
- Elasticity
- 1.06
- Incumbency
- 0.0
- Candidate experience
- 0.0
- Fundraising
- +3.1
- National environment
- D+5.4
- Expected margin
- R+2.7